Relectiones hyemales, de ratione & methodo legendi utrasq; historias, civiles & ecclesiasticas. Quibus historici probatissimi, non solùm ordine quo sunt legendi catenatim recensentur, sed doctorum etiam virorum de singulis judicia subnectuntur. Nec-non unde singulorum in historia vel brevitas dilatari vel de sectus suppleri, vel perplexitas expediri, vel mutilationes deniq; temporum injuria factæ resarciri possint, indicatur. À Deg. Wheare prælect. Camden. primo. Editio quarta. Quibus jam appenditur Mantissa de historicis gentium particularium quà antiquioribus qu recentioribus; cum aliis additamentis (ut versa pagina indicat) per N.H. è C.C.C

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First published in 1623 with title: De ratione et methodo legendi historias dissertatio (STC 25325); first published as "Relectiones hyemales" in 1637, as a revised version of the first 1625 Oxford edition (STC 25326). ESTC records 5 copies in the UK (3 in Oxford libraries), plus Folger.Wheare's 'reputation rests less upon these lectures [as first Camden Professor of Ancient History, the oldest chair of history in England] than upon his Latin manual on how to read and profit from history, which he composed and published at the beginning of his tenure, and revised and expanded in subsequent editions. Two titles were used: De ratione et methodo legendi historias dissertatio (1623, 1625, 1628) and Relectiones hyemales de ratione et methodo legendi utrasque historias civiles et ecclesiasticas (1637, 1662, 1684). The 1662 edition contained many additions by Nicholas Horseman. Further changes and additions were made in an English translation by the Tory pamphleteer Edmund Bohun, The Method and Order of Reading both Civil and Ecclesiastical Histories (1685, 1694, 1698, 1710)' (ODNB).This copy does not have the title-label and alternative title-page, but 'a copy cannot be regarded as imperfect if it wants the title-label and alternative title-page' (Madan), and they are not called for in the collation given in ESTC.